Connecting the Dots: A collection of ad hoc design thinking - Hardcover

Emery, Garry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1743799454 ISBN 13: 9781743799451

Publisher: Hardie Grant Books, 2025

Synopsis

Connecting the Dots showcases the remarkable contribution of one designer, Garry Emery, to Australian culture internationally over 60+ years.

It publishes a selection of Emery’s writings, alongside notes he calls ‘ramblings’ as well as presenting EmeryStudio’s design work.

Connecting the Dots collects ad-hoc design thinking, comments, insights, thoughts, quotations, snippets, questions, answers, essays, articles, meditations, opinions, ambiguities, dogmas, observations, ideas, remnants, contradictions, realities, episodes, moments, fantasies, threads, traces, snapshots, ramblings, ruminations, not so many facts, no certainties.

'As this book shows, Emery’s work is much more than graphic design. It is the design of alphabets, pages, books, branding and websites, but also of walls, installations, exhibitions, furniture, rooms, postage stamps, car parks, building facades and busy streets. How do we read a page or a poster; how do we find our way around crowded, chaotic cities?' - James Button, writer and editor

About this title

About the Author

Garry Emery is highly awarded, published and exhibited internationally. He is recognised for his contribution to design communications across two-, three- and four-dimensional spatial environments in various media and mediums.
 
Currently he operates as a sole practitioner working with contractors and collaborating on the design of the Virtual Exhibition for the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. Emery has served on international juries for design and national juries for architecture and urbanism. He received the President’s Award, Australian Institute of Architects, and was the first designer outside the USA to be nominated a Fellow of the Society of Experiential Graphic Design.
 
Garry founded EmeryStudio which designed the wayfinding and signage systems for the three tallest buildings of the time, Burj Khalifa in United Arab Emirates, Petronas Towers in Malaysia and Taipei 101 in Taiwan, as well as many other high-profile projects for government and the private sector.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1743799454
• ISBN 13: 9781743799451
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 600